Publications of J. Wells
Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.
What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.
In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "printed for x" or "published by x";
or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":
- "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x"; and so on.
On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.
See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."
Sold by J. Wells
- Bisbie, Nathaniel. An ansvver to a treatise out of ecclesiastical history, translated from an ancient Greek manuscript in the publick library at Oxford, by Humfrey Hody, B.D. &c. and published under the title of The unreasonableness of a separation from the new bishops, to shew, that although a bishop was unjustly deprived, neither he nor the church ever made a separation, if the successor was not an heretick. To which is added, the canons in the Baroccian manuscript omitted by Mr. Hody. London: printed, and are to be sold by J. Wells, near S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1691. ESTC No. R18575. Grub Street ID 74693.